Re: Help Creating a user on vsta.

From: Andrew Valencia <vandys_at_nospam.org>
Date: Mon Jul 03 1995 - 21:54:00 PDT

[Vanier Kethireddy <vanier@aurora.carleton.ca> writes:]

> Once I log in I can not create any files. Well, typically
>if a user is created, we create a dir and change its ownership,
>but I didn't do that since there is no chown command.

The DOS filesystem, since there's no place to keep owner/protection
information, just assumes all files are owned by sys.sys. So make sure your
user ID includes sys.sys (1.1), either by adding this ID to the group you
log into, or by making your group "root".

                                                Regards,
                                                Andy
Received on Tue Jul 4 07:08:16 1995

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